TAUNTON — Police arrested a man and woman and recovered a stolen SUV on Tuesday afternoon after the couple reportedly stopped off at a local gas station.

The 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe was reported stolen Monday night from in front of a Broadway residence.

Police said they were able to track it down the next day at 1:45 p.m. after a caller alerted them to the general direction in which the vehicle was heading.

Taunton Patrolman Shawn Smith said he spotted the SUV parked at a pump at the GeKo gas station at 229 Weir St. with its motor idling and a man sitting in the driver seat.

The man, later identified as 29-year-old Jeremiah Rhodes of 819 County St., was escorted to a waiting patrol car. Police said a computer check showed that his driver’s license was suspended.

Police also said they found ¼ gram of cocaine wrapped in foil in a Newport cigarette box inside the Santa Fe.

A woman later identified as Valerie Resendes, 27, was allegedly walking toward the vehicle but quickly turned to walk back to the gas station building when she caught sight of police.

Police said Resendes falsely identified herself as another Taunton woman but then admitted her true identity. They also said they found a hypodermic needle in her purse, which she’d left inside the vehicle.

It turns out Resendes, whose recent addresses have included residences in Taunton and Fall River, had an outstanding warrant out of Taunton District Court for skipping a probation violation hearing related to a conviction in 2012 for assault and battery and malicious destruction of a motor vehicle.

She was arraigned Wednesday and sentenced by Judge Thomas Finigan to four months in the house of correction minus 24 credit days served.

Rhodes was charged with receiving a stolen motor vehicle, possession of cocaine and driving on a suspended license. He was held in lieu of $7,500 cash bail and is due back in court Aug. 1 for a pretrial hearing.

Finigan, in setting bail, noted that Rhodes has two open cases out of district court in Fall River and prior convictions with time served in state prison for controlled-substance violations in both Plymouth and Bristol counties.

Police said when they contacted the Taunton woman who reported the SUV having been stolen, she insisted that she neither takes illegal drugs nor smokes Newport cigarettes.

She allegedly also stated that her husband, the vehicle’s registered owner, has not recently had access to the vehicle because he is currently incarcerated.